The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-08-03
Farm and Garden Notes.

Farm and Garden Notes.
Keep machinery and wagons well
oiled.
The squash is a rank feeder and needs
rich soil.
Keep down the suckers that start from
tree roots.
Remember to be careful in the use of
Paris green.
Copperas solution for grape rot has
many advocates.
The progressive farmer always keeps
ahead of the weeds.
The first lesson in stock raising is to
learn to love and pet the cattle.
! An Illinois farmer finds salt an effec-
tive protection against the chinch bug.
: All kinds of stock except sheep and
swine have decreased in value in Dakota.
Clay soil gives the most solid and best
favored celery, according to some grow
erS.
The man who warns himself up every
morning grooming his horses will be well
remunerated for his trouble.
Begin bee keeping with one or two
colonies and study the subject as-you en-
large and extend the business.
When the leaves of the squash vines
begin to wilt in the bright July days
look out for the squash-borers.
An occasional sprinkling with cop
peras solution will help to keep the cow
Stable free from offensive odors.
''The best manure for small fruits, and
in fact for everything else, is wcll-rotted
barnyard manure" says M. Milton.
Strict cleanliness in the care of stables,
pigpens, poultry houses, etc., is never
more imperative than at this season.
Watch for striped bugs upon the vines; {;
light dusting with white lead while the
dew is on is said to afford protection
against them.
Manuring grass fields near a dairy
sometimes leads to tainting the butter,
otherwise sweet and Objectionable, so as
to destroy its use.
Better prices are paid for colts and un-
developed horses now than have ever
been known before. A man can do
worse with his farm than to raise good
colts on it.
According to Commissioner Colman,
the germs of apple and pear blight are
of extreme tenuity and are borne from
place to place and from tree to tree by
the atmosphere.
One ounce of copperas dissolved in
pint of water, and applied by sprinkler
to affected cabbages, killed all the cab
bage worms. Carbolate of lime drove
them away, but did not kill him them.
Turkeys are great foragers, and will
gather their entire food from the fields
during the summer, at the same time
destroying myriads of bugs, grasshop-
pers, worms, etc., that prey upon the
crops.
The National Live Stock Journal says
if the colt is haltered and handled half
hour every day till two months old, and
haltered and led regularly at least once
u week, before being weaned, it will be
better for it every way.
A cunning statist estimates that three
weeds of moderate size and growth will
occupy as much ground, draw as much
nutriment from it, take in as much OF
the life-giving sunlight and of the food
bearing atmosphere as good stalk OF
corn.
Mr.. T. E. Plat. of Connecticut, says
in Mep England homestead: IF grow
ing potato comes in contact with a par.
ticlc of potash the skin will be corroded.
This will give the tuber rough skin,
which some people call the scab, but it
is not, yet it may damage the tubers as
much as the true scab, which is caused
by fungus"
Vick's Magazine says the Goblin moth
can be successfully destroyed by syring
ing the trees with paris green and water
soon after the blossoms have fallen, and
when the little apples, nearly formed, are
held erect by their fruit stems, calyx end
up. The apple aphis can be DESTROYED
by kerosene oil made into an emulsion
and mixed with water, the liquid thrown
on in fine spray with force pump.